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5 <refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
6 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
11 <refname>Samba</refname>
12 <refpurpose>A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX</refpurpose>
16 <cmdsynopsis><command>Samba</command></cmdsynopsis>
20 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
22 <para>The Samba software suite is a collection of programs
23 that implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated
24 as SMB) protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes
25 also referred to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). For a
26 more thorough description, see <ulink url="http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/">
27 http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/</ulink>. Samba also implements the NetBIOS
28 protocol in nmbd.</para>
32 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
33 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
34 <listitem><para>The <command>smbd</command> daemon provides the file and print services to
35 SMB clients, such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
36 for Workgroups or LanManager. The configuration file
37 for this daemon is described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
38 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
43 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
44 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
45 <listitem><para>The <command>nmbd</command>
46 daemon provides NetBIOS nameservice and browsing
47 support. The configuration file for this daemon
48 is described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
49 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
54 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
55 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
56 <listitem><para>The <command>smbclient</command>
57 program implements a simple ftp-like client. This
58 is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible
59 servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used
60 to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to
61 any SMB server (such as a PC running Windows NT).</para>
66 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>testparm</refentrytitle>
67 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
68 <listitem><para>The <command>testparm</command>
69 utility is a simple syntax checker for Samba's <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
70 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> configuration file.</para>
75 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>testprns</refentrytitle>
76 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
77 <listitem><para>The <command>testprns</command>
78 utility supports testing printer names defined
79 in your <filename>printcap</filename> file used
85 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbstatus</refentrytitle>
86 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
87 <listitem><para>The <command>smbstatus</command>
88 tool provides access to information about the
89 current connections to <command>smbd</command>.</para>
94 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmblookup</refentrytitle>
95 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
96 <listitem><para>The <command>nmblookup</command>
97 tools allows NetBIOS name queries to be made
98 from a UNIX host.</para>
103 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbgroupedit</refentrytitle>
104 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
105 <listitem><para>The <command>smbgroupedit</command>
106 tool allows for mapping unix groups to NT Builtin,
107 Domain, or Local groups. Also it allows setting
108 priviledges for that group, such as saAddUser, etc.</para>
113 <term><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbpasswd</refentrytitle>
114 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></term>
115 <listitem><para>The <command>smbpasswd</command>
116 command is a tool for changing LanMan and Windows NT
117 password hashes on Samba and Windows NT servers.</para>
125 <title>COMPONENTS</title>
127 <para>The Samba suite is made up of several components. Each
128 component is described in a separate manual page. It is strongly
129 recommended that you read the documentation that comes with Samba
130 and the manual pages of those components that you use. If the
131 manual pages and documents aren't clear enough then please visit
132 <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org</ulink>
133 for information on how to file a bug report or submit a patch.</para>
135 <para>If you require help, visit the Samba webpage at
136 <ulink url="http://samba.org/">http://www.samba.org/</ulink> and
137 explore the many option available to you.
142 <title>AVAILABILITY</title>
144 <para>The Samba software suite is licensed under the
145 GNU Public License(GPL). A copy of that license should
146 have come with the package in the file COPYING. You are
147 encouraged to distribute copies of the Samba suite, but
148 please obey the terms of this license.</para>
150 <para>The latest version of the Samba suite can be
151 obtained via anonymous ftp from samba.org in the
152 directory pub/samba/. It is also available on several
153 mirror sites worldwide.</para>
155 <para>You may also find useful information about Samba
156 on the newsgroup <ulink url="news:comp.protocols.smb">
157 comp.protocol.smb</ulink> and the Samba mailing
158 list. Details on how to join the mailing list are given in
159 the README file that comes with Samba.</para>
161 <para>If you have access to a WWW viewer (such as Mozilla
162 or Konqueror) then you will also find lots of useful information,
163 including back issues of the Samba mailing list, at
164 <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.</para>
168 <title>VERSION</title>
170 <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the
175 <title>CONTRIBUTIONS</title>
177 <para>If you wish to contribute to the Samba project,
178 then I suggest you join the Samba mailing list at
179 <ulink url="http://lists.samba.org/">http://lists.samba.org</ulink>.
182 <para>If you have patches to submit, visit
183 <ulink url="http://devel.samba.org/">http://devel.samba.org/</ulink>
184 for information on how to do it properly. We prefer patches
185 in <command>diff -u</command> format.</para>
189 <title>CONTRIBUTORS</title>
191 <para>Contributors to the project are now too numerous
192 to mention here but all deserve the thanks of all Samba
193 users. To see a full list, look at <ulink
194 url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log">
195 ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/change-log</ulink>
196 for the pre-CVS changes and at <ulink
197 url="ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log">
198 ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/cvs.log</ulink>
199 for the contributors to Samba post-CVS. CVS is the Open Source
200 source code control system used by the Samba Team to develop
201 Samba. The project would have been unmanageable without it.</para>
203 <para>In addition, several commercial organizations now help
204 fund the Samba Team with money and equipment. For details see
205 the Samba Web pages at <ulink
206 url="http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html">
207 http://samba.org/samba/samba-thanks.html</ulink>.</para>
211 <title>AUTHOR</title>
213 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
214 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
215 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
216 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
218 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
219 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
220 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
221 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
222 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
223 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML
224 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>